This is a list of the nightclubs in Chiang Mai. I update this list as nightclubs close open or change their name so you can bookmark the page or link to it if you like. What I concider a Nightclub in Chiang Mai is typically an enclosed area with standing tables where people dance around the tables. This is the Thai style Night Club. Thai people call a Nightclub a Pub. A regular Pub what we think of Thai people would call a Bar. If you think I’m missing a Nightclub or any changes that need to be made to the list please email me or comment below.
Map of Nightclubs In Chiang Mai Thailand
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Warm Up Cafe
Warm Up Cafe is THE nightclub in Chiang Mai. It has the hottest girls of any Nightclub in Chiangmai. Though unless your a hunky Thai male or young farang girl it’s not the place to pick up girls. They do play the best music of any nightclub in Chiang Mai though, and if you are looking for a night out to take a couple of girls with your mates then this is the place to go. My advice though go on a weekday and not Friday or Saturday night. The place is super crowded. You can go early and book a table on the inside while you sit outside and have dinner, they are a cafe after all and the food there is great. The prices are very reasonable as well. This place also closes 1am on the dot!
Infinity
Infinity Nightclub in Chiang Mai is the latest and greatest of Nightclubs to the local scene. It’s a huge area and is designed for the young Thai hip crowd. Foreigners are seen here sparingly mostly because it’s outside the old city, but also because they have the normal Thai bands playing which doesn’t play well with the farang ear. This place looks super expensive but will cost less than any bar on loi kroh road. I really like this place because it’s swank, new, and lots of people.
Discovery
The Discovery nightclub is right across the road from the old Kad Suan Kaow shopping mall. This place goes up and down in popularity but is virtually dead during the week. There are people there but it’s waning. Weekends are good for this place though I kind of think it’s a bit expensive compared to other clubs and for what you get. Of course there is the band playing but I like the upbeat pop tunes during the intermissions.
Whiz
Whiz club at the bottom of the Lotus hotel behind the Kad Suan Kaow shopping center has changed it’s name several times in the past 5 years. Formerly Fashion club this is a huge hang out for the Kratoy and lesbian scene. Most girls in this place are either Dees, Toms, or outright lesbians. Strange place to have Kratoys there you might think but see if your a guy and end up here then it’s likely no girl will talk to you unless it’s a man dressed up as one. They may have changed the name but it’s the same crowd. It is super expensive especially if you buy individual drinks so keep that in mind.
Cosmo
Want to feal like a fish out of water and the only farang in a nightclub then by all means come to Cosmo nightclub. Overpriced, unfriendly, bad music are some of the things that come to mind when I went there last. This place has gone from nightclub to karaoke club to nightclub to karaoke club and back to nightclub. They do play a lot of events there because they have a good stage but I wouldn’t waste your time going there. Oh it’s also got a 70-30 guy-girl ratio so your odds of scoring here are virtually nill.
Mandalay
The Mandalay bar is a massive nightclub that has an awesome Thai show every night. The lower ground has a huge floor with a real older crowd. If you don’t speak any Thai your really not going to like this place. In fact you’ll be treated very unwelcome if you come in here anyway. They will charge you 300 baht to walk in the door you can exchange it for drinks but you’ll just feal like leaving anyway. Upstairs is the younger crowd. And when I say younger I mean it, this place has guys and girls anywhere from 12-17 drinking alcohol and god knows what else they are doing. It’s mostly for gays of both sexes men and girls so I just felt I just felt like I didn’t belong. But I guess if your gay or lesbian and you like younger people then sure this is the only place in town for you.
Monkey Club
Monkey Club is one of those Thai style nightclubs that integrate a bar and lounge restaurant area. One of the most expensive clubs in Chiang Mai it’s also one of the most hippest. Standing room only on the weekends and is in the famed trendy Nimmanheiman area. A lot of foreigners do go to this place but mostly those already in the Thai crowed and only ever with other Thai people. It’s rare that I see farang in this place without a Thai person near them. The place is very stylish not my kind of club but could be yours. The actual nightclub area is very small so just like warm up be sure to get there early to get your seat. During the week is much better.
Fabrique Nightclub
Fabrique located in the bottom of the President Hotel just outside the old Moat is one of the biggest club areas in Chiang Mai. There are 2 huge rooms and a really cool outside area. Since the opening of Infinity it’s lost a lot of customers but that hasn’t stopped them from continuing to charge 300 baht for foreigners who go in there. If you have a Thai drivers license it’s fine they won’t charge you. This club has a lot going for it but what detracts is the music. They have one room that plays only techno all night long and doesn’t even see people in it until 2am in the morning. If they played say hip-hop before the trance they’d do a lot better. The larger room has a Thai band playing every night which is ok but as a westerner it’s not that great. If you go here head for the outdoor area which is really chill.
Hot Shot Nightclub
At the base of the Pornping Tower Hotel this is a popular place for those from Bangkok and tourists. The place is super load and has been around for a long time so has an established crowd. With the reopening of Bubble disco not sure what this will do for the Hot Shot. Though if Bubbles stays open when Hot Shot closes it could be a good thing to get more people into Bubbles. They have a dancing show and Coyote girls though nothing very special and a band that plays English and Thai songs. It’s not too bad and if you buy a bottle and walk in it’s actually pretty cheap.
Spicy Nightclub
Everyone knows I hate this place. Even still you’ll still see me here now and then mostly because everywhere else is closed and this place is the last one standing. The reason I don’t like the place is because the last 10 times i’ve been there i’ve seen fights break out. Sometimes farang on farang, bar girl on bar girl, or farang on tuk tuk drivers. Honestly the place is a hole and the only place bar girls who didn’t get a pickup all night go in the hopes to get something before the night is out. Great place if that’s what your looking for. Though sometimes you’ll get the odd girls who got let out of say Warm Up and are looking or hoping to meet a farang come here. Good girls do go here but you’ll need to be smooth enough to make them think your not the regular sex tourist. If getting laid is imperative and for a good price you can’t go past Spicy.
Bubbles
At the time of this writing the Bubble disco/nightclub had been shut for the past 2 years. It’s reopening though at the end of this month and will likely be exactly the same as it was before. Good or Bad. This place is one of the first Nightclubs in Chiang Mai and mainly attracted a Farang crowd. (Farang meaning foreigner). Now there is so much selection that the place had gone downhill and rarely attracted people. But now with Beer Chang as the owner we might see an insurgence. Two things I don’t like about the place. Firstly it’s in the basement and if it’s packed can be a fire hazard. Second they like playing that doof doof music which just gives me a headache.
Yellow Bar
This place is in the Rasta area near Taphae gate. Lots of backpackers here and mostly a farang crowd. Really the only place for backpackers and younger foreign travellers to go. I find it expensive though and people wearing flip flops out partying really isn’t my thing but hey your on vacation right can’t pack everything right. There is a closed off party room resembling a glassed nightclub and starts getting filled around 12pm but quickly closes at 2pm when everyone either goes home or heads to spicy just up the road. Want to hang out with a younger farang crowd with plenty of farang girls then go here.
Hua Lamphong Station 2
This new Thai style venue is very large, packed on weekends and has the flavour of a Warm Up venue and it’s super cheap. Not really a place for foreigners you’ll feel like a fish out of water but if your on the circuit going to all the places check it out. I actually like the music at this place. It’s called Hua Lamphong Station 2 because number 1 is just up the road and is an open air pub with a live band playing every night.
Differ Club Chiang Mai
The differ nightclub in Chaing Mai located just behind Tops supermarket on Chang Puak Road is a very popular place for the younger Thai crowd. Mostly students studying at Rachapak university this place get’s so crowded on the weekend it’s hard to move. The music is mostly Thai but the kids that come here are way more enthusiastic about partying and dancing than at the other nightclubs in Chiang Mai.
So I have listed 14 nightclubs and if your in the know of the Chiang Mai nightlife scene you’re probably thinking oh he missed Riverside and Goodview. Moreso GoodView than Riverside, but while thai people might call these Pubs I wouldn’t call them Nightclubs. They arn’t enclosed. See the map below so you know where the Chiang Mai Clubs are at.
So that’s it for the Complete Guide to Nightclubs in Chiang Mai. Again if you think i’ve missed something or have a comment please do so below. Have and awesome night!
Prasertland?
Is Prasertland a nightclub or the area of land behind nimmanheiman road that’s called prasertland where dtawandang and infinity is at?
the area of land where Infinity is – dawangtan is the place I think
You Forgot Tara Bar on CM – Lampun Road. Good music, food, drinks
I guess your right though I wouldn’t exactly call it a nightclub.
Changes Within The Chiang Mai Sex Scene.
Over the years there have been many drastic changes within the Chiang Mai sex scene. Not for the better I’m sorry to say.
It`s all become over priced, expensive and big business orientated. These days including a woman as part of your social activities has become more of a luxury rather than as an inclusion to a night out as used to be back in the old days.
The good stuff or in other words anything even half decent have moved on to up market venues outside of the main tourist drags. Acquiring even just a short time with one of these girls can cost you a truckload of cash and I mean literally thousands of bahts. In most cases way over the budgets of the average tourist or for ex pats that like to frequent these places on a regular basis. Even in the most expensive dens of iniquity, the girls can be extremely inhibited and the service mechanical, with ridiculous amounts of money being asked for a quickie session of restrained sex, or wham bang thank you guy, that will be xxxx bahts plus tip thank you, next please.
The problem is the powers that be have closed down most if not all of the back street brothels. If there are any left in Chiang Mai, than these seem to be a closely guarded secret and discretely hidden away in the abyss somewhere.
Regarding online freelancers in Chiang Mai, there doesn’t appear to be any. Again it seems like Chiang Mai is a dead loss in the online department. There are the escort agencies where the girls will ask for a starting rate of 5000 baht just to turn up and acknowledge that you exist in addition before even getting down to the required service.
Most of the hot chicks online, including dating sites and personals such as craigslist are in Bangkok and other areas. Many of the Chiang Mai online girls are just silly schoolgirls or college students that are really only looking for online facebook and MSN friends. Some of the Chiang Mai girls profile themselves as being so pure; they almost qualify as being Nuns.
There are decent girls to be had advertising their services online as deksideliner girls. But these are usually strictly reserved for Thai clientele and now many of the girls profiles are being blocked by the police on a daily basis. The only way a Westerner may have a chance of getting into the sideliner scene, that is if he becomes lucky enough to find or know a Thai who is well conversant with the sideliner scene and introduce him to the girls.
What’s left of the farang adult entertainment venues are only remnants of what they used to be and today it`s all pretty grim. There are the few grot and skank bars left in the Loi Kroh road. The working women in these bars are mostly rejects that would probably be the last choice of any self respecting monger and not that cheap either, but unfortunately it`s become a case of take it or leave it because there are very few other choices unless willing and able to pay much larger sums of money for anything reasonable. Plus if like me you don`t like to drink that often, than it`s tough luck because there are not many options. Even the Loi Kroh road bars have lately been under close scrutiny of the police and it is possible that these may also be closed down and levelled in the foreseeable future.
Many tourists and ex pats have turned they’re attentions to the inner city massage parlours as a substitute for the bar scene and lack of brothels, but this can be very hit and miss. Most of the inner city Chiang Mai massage parlours have become staffed by aging unattractive women that have transformed these establishments into hand job parlours. This after a while becomes boring and non eventful. It can also be expensive drifting around the massage parlours searching for a few and between looker who may oblige with a little more than a hand job. Besides that, most of the massage parlours are bleak, with only curtain partitions, the customer usually lying only within a foot or two away from a customer on the other side of the curtain and are simply not geared up for having sex on the premises. Some will do outcalls, but the customer will have no choice of lady and the odds are that it will be someone’s mother or granny turning up for the service.
There are other massage parlours just outside the main tourist areas, but are usually staffed by the same sorts of aging unattractive women as in the inner city parlours, only difference being is that the premises are much superior in cleanliness and surroundings, which is normally reflected in the price. They can charge from twice to four times the hourly rates compared to the regular dumps in the town.
For me as a resident of Chiang Mai, I have become most disillusioned with it`s sex scene and have virtually given it up as a bad job. I’m sure there are those who are going to say to the contrary, but I’ve seen no evidence of this and if so, I would be interested to read their comments with actual facts, locations and prices. So far what I have read has failed to give me any inspiration or hope for the future of the Chiang Mai sex scene.
I agree that Chiang Mai and the Northern provinces as a whole are only a fraction of what their former glory was like. Though there still are short time brothels for 500 these are mostly Burmese girls. There are a couple of places where the girls are 1000 but farang are no longer allowed to frequent. The best bet is at the Karaoke places like “Piano” it’s on the map and that place will cost 1500. So yes it’s still here of course prices have increased with inflation but compared to what I saw 15 years ago Chiang Mai sex scene is weak in comparison but certainly not dead.
You Forget Differ disco in Santitam area
Your right, it’s on the map but not on the list I’ll add it now.
we should do a ‘tour’ – say a bunch of interested guys doing the less well known ones? we all know bubbles, hotshot and spicy but it might be interesting to do some less well know ones with fellow hunters.
Sounds like a good idea to me, end of the month i’m planning a monger night with coyote dancers at my pub, come alone and we can discuss there. Details to follow
You can count me in, I would be interested in a group night out.
yup let me know when and where
any update to that night out Chris???